pavle radonic
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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Arts |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Location | Melbourne - Boka Kotorska - Singapore - Yogyakarta - KL (Chow Kit) - Jakarta (Tanah Abang) - Johor Bahru. |
| Introduction | Australian writer of Montenegrin origin. Football, prolonged studies and a short stint of teaching preceded the writing life; a small building project later interrupted. The accidental marooning on the SE Asian equator sent the work into new directions. |
| Interests | Lit., history, politics, international & current affairs, art & culture, urbanism, NYRB, walking, cycling, cafe/kopi shop-sitting, slow travel, climbing, gardening |
| Favorite Movies | Tarkovsky, Ozu, Kurosawa, Wells, Sokurov, Ivens, de Sica, Rossellini, Benning (American Dreams, Landscape Suicide), Pedro Costa, Wiseman; &etc. |
| Favorite Music | Classical, opera (callas, pavarotti, jeffries, mattei), noise, blues, experimental, gusle/national/gypsy (Former YU) |
| Favorite Books | The headkickers: Beckett, Joyce (not FW), Pynchon, Dickinson, Celine, Genet, Flaubert, Nietzsche, Vidal, Sontag, Bernhard, Dostojevsky, Chekhov, Camus, Kafka, Canetti, Jelinek, Wordsworth, Banville (nay to the nay-sayers), Larkin, P. P. Njegos, Kawabata, Oe, Whitman, Rilke, Garcia Marquez, Walser, Hamsun, Nin, Brodkey, Chomsky... Shakespeare! the Greeks! Blake, Milton, Sam Johnson... New discoveries: Victor Serge, Debord, Virilio, Alexievich, Pessoa. Tariq Ali, Chris Hedges, Zizek, Pankaj Mishra. I Ching (David Hinton transl.), Bhagavad Gita, Tao Te Ching, Analects. Sholokhov. Australian: Murray Bail, Helen Garner (Children's Bach), Robert Drewe (Our Sunshine), Lawson, Stead, Barry Dickins (Unparalleled Sorrow), Henry Reynolds (Why Weren’t We Told). Miklos Nyiszli’s Auschwitz testimony stands in a category of its own. NB. A riveting interview with David Foster Wallace: https://youtu.be/iGLzWdT7vGc |